STORE DESTROYED
BIG NAPIER FIRE.
800 BALES OF WOOL LOST.
EARLY MORNING OUTBREAK.
(By Telegraph.—Press Associativa.) NAPIER, this day. Fire early this morning totally destroyed the Farmers' Wool Scouring Company's building and approximately 800 bales of wool, which had been purchased by the Imperial Government under the commandeer eehenie. The wool was valued at about £12,000, and the building and plant at £5000.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 157, 4 July 1940, Page 10
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